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Who's the Smartest?

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1. Which of these famous explorers died of natural causes?

Sir Walter Raleigh

Ferdinand Magellan

Captain James Cook

David Livingstone

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2. What nineteenth century Irish playwright, poet and raconteur said in one of his plays, "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"?

Sean O'Casey

James Joyce

G. B. Shaw

Oscar Wilde

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3. In 1991 during confirmation hearings, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas was charged with sexual harassment. Who was the woman who testified she had been sexually harassed by Thomas?

Anita Bryant

Anita Hill

Alice Hill

Fawn Hill

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4. What was the nickname of American frontiersman Christopher Carson?

The Kid

Wild Bill

Kit

Bigfoot

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5. As a child, Elizabeth I and which half-sister were sent from court and frequently ignored by their father, although never officially in disfavor with the King?

Katherine Howard

Anne Boleyn

Mary, daughter of Katherine of Aragon.

Jane Seymour

6. Which celebrated English dramatist was once famously labelled "an upstart crow" by one of his lesser-known contemporaries, who could not, it seems, contain his jealousy, nor understand his rival's burgeoning popularity?

William Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe

Ben Jonson

Thomas Kyd

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7. Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was put to death by the United States government, by which method?

Hanged

Lethal injection

Firing squad

Electric chair

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8. What rotund comedian, famous for his red nose and an aversion to children, opined, "If a thing is worth having, it's worth cheating for"?

Jackie Gleason

W. C. Fields

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle

Buster Keaton

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9. What was the profession of John Pemberton, the man who invented the popular soft drink Coca-Cola?

Psychologist

Science teacher

Pharmacist

Doctor

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10. What do Rudyard Kipling, C.V. Raman and Dr Sir Ronald Ross have in common?

Indian-born Nobel Prize Winners

Colonial Governors

Esteemed Writers

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